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11 hours ago, madprofessor207 said:

What is the best Project for an AMD GPU? I got a RX 7900 XTX that just doesn't seem to be getting fully utilized.

Primegrid never runs out of work, and it comes in all sizes too. GPUGrid sometimes have gpu work too.

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On 2/3/2024 at 7:07 AM, Imakuni said:

Primegrid never runs out of work, and it comes in all sizes too. GPUGrid sometimes have gpu work too.

In this case GPUGrid does not supply work to AMD GPUs, so you will be out of luck with that project.

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On 4/22/2024 at 11:04 AM, Egon3 said:

The 2024 BOINC Pentathlon starts in less than 2 weeks. Will there be an LTT team participating this year??

 

14 minutes ago, miker07 said:

I'm in if we participate. I really need to my new build done then and do some maintenance this week then. 

We always participate, in one way or another 🙂

 

I'll be doing it with whatever I can.

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1 hour ago, miker07 said:

I'm in if we participate. I really need to my new build done then and do some maintenance this week then. 

Has anyone actually signed up?

 

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Created placeholder topic and signed us up, will update tomorrow after I wake up

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So anyone happen to know how long it usually takes for CPIDs to merge together? I have like 3 accounts to the same email right now from the pentathlon

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2 hours ago, HoldSquat said:

So anyone happen to know how long it usually takes for CPIDs to merge together? I have like 3 accounts to the same email right now from the pentathlon

Does at least one computer have all the projects on it?

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26 minutes ago, TheLANguy said:

Does at least one computer have all the projects on it?

yea my main PC has all of them on it and I had signed into BAM from the BOINC Manager and send info into BAM. I'd try again but....I updated arch and now BOINC Manager doesn't want to open 😅

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23 hours ago, HoldSquat said:

So anyone happen to know how long it usually takes for CPIDs to merge together? I have like 3 accounts to the same email right now from the pentathlon

It can take upto 24 hours or longer depending on when stats update and so on and so forth

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9 minutes ago, TheLANguy said:

Disappointing to see the closure of Anandtech. I hope their amazing BOINC team finds a way to continue competing.

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So, I've just been awarded my gold badge for BOINC and based on my experiance I'd like to make a suggestion for the improvement of the BOINC badge system. The reason for this suggestion is that, with a single 4080 and by focusing on the GPUGrid task, I was able to farm the badge (going from 3m to 102m credits) in just 9 days. Based on this, I don't feel it is a stretch to say that the BOINC badges are too easy to farm.

 

On top of that, the current badges don't do anything to address the vast credit disparity between the different projects and stop farming. For example, the highest current credit per day for GPUGrid is more than 200m, but with projects like Asteroids or Ramanujan it is only 500k or 200k, respectively.

All that said, I don't want any update to punish people who come after me. Therefore, I suggest (instead of changing the existing badges) the creation of a Diamond and a Platinum BOINC Badge which, instead of asking you to reach a given points total for BOINC combined, ask contributors to exceed a credit threshold in each of a given number of projects.

 

This way members of the LTT BOINC community would have targets to reach for that could not be easily farmed.

 

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14 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

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The issue you've got is the badges, at least on the folding side are "managed" but myself, being the folding team leader. Although we technically have a BOINC team leader, being @Ithanul I don't believe she is active on the forum, it at least I've not seen her around lately. 

 

So the question then goes to, well if she's not active why is she the leader? And partly that's because she volunteered at the time, and in the mean time no one has really brought up the issue to be discussed.

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